craft days

Recently a friend and I had a craft day for our kiddos.

I've never had anyone over for crafts before and it was actually really fun. If you haven't done this, take a leap and have a go - it's fun for the kids and of course the mums too! 

And you will end up making totally cute stuff.

On our craft day we started out with this:

You can dye rice using the same method as the pasta method I shared earlier. It dries a lot faster. I just emptied the bag out onto a plate lined with paper towel and the rice was dry in no time.

And then we made some of these:

And then thanks to Pinterest inspiration and resourceful + creative thinking on Jade's behalf we also made these using things we already had on hand:

Too cute!!

Tips for having a craft day?

Be organised and have everything prepped. I had a few things ready {like the cloud page and the dyed rice} but I hadn't cut any of the ribbon for the jellyfish yet. While we did that the boys played, but were a bit antsy to get some painting + gluing going so I'd definitely have everything ready to go next time!

Have fun and go with it - your kiddos might lose interest. No problems :o} It gives you an excuse to do some crafting yourself. We agreed that it was one of the many awesome things about having children, we get to nourish our inner crafty child and make pretty rainbow things with googly eyes, too. {and this is also why the babies made their own jellyfish and sunshines! They enjoyed the painting bit but we enjoyed doing the rest!}
Noah wasn't interested in painting his sun until it was nearly dinner time, that's ok, there's no forcing. It's just a fun way to spend the afternoon together and add a little something to a play date.

Enjoy! :o}